Margarida Calafate Ribeiro
University of Coimbra, Centre for Social Studies, Department Member
- Margarida Calafate Ribeiro is senior researcher at the Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra and she holds... moreMargarida Calafate Ribeiro is senior researcher at the Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra and she holds the Eduardo Lourenço Chair, University of Bologna/ Instituto Camões. She holds a PhD in Portuguese Studies from King’s College, University of London, a MA from the Universidade Nova de Lisboa and a BA from the University of Aveiro, Portugal.
She was awarded a Consolidator Grant by the European Research Council (ERC-648624) to coordinate the project MEMOIRS - Children of Empires and European Postmemories, between 2015 and 2020, hosted at the Centre for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra.
Margarida Calafate Ribeiro has published widely on Portugal and its Empire and the Colonial Wars, post-colonialism in the Portuguese speaking countries, Portuguese literature and its relations with history and politics and Lusophone African literatures.edit
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Between 1961 and 1974 Portugal sustained a long-term colonial war, that was not public acknowledge, with Angola, Mozambique and Guinea-Bissau. After this conflict, a sudden process of decolonization occurred, following the revolution of... more
Between 1961 and 1974 Portugal sustained a long-term colonial war, that was not public acknowledge, with Angola, Mozambique and Guinea-Bissau. After this conflict, a sudden process of decolonization occurred, following the revolution of 25th of April 1974, which ended the long-term dictatorship of the fascist regime and also the colonial war.
This essay focuses on the reasons of this process of decolonization, its frames and reconfigurations and its impact in the Portuguese identity. The second part of this essay focuses on Portugal as a postcolonial European nation in direct confrontation and dialogue with other countries in the European Community that share a similar past, which affect Europe as a continent haunted by its colonial issues.
This essay focuses on the reasons of this process of decolonization, its frames and reconfigurations and its impact in the Portuguese identity. The second part of this essay focuses on Portugal as a postcolonial European nation in direct confrontation and dialogue with other countries in the European Community that share a similar past, which affect Europe as a continent haunted by its colonial issues.
In this article, I provide an overview of literary portrayals of the cities of Luanda and Maputo over the course of their histories from the colonial period to the post-independence era. In particular, I draw on the literary images and... more
In this article, I provide an overview of literary portrayals of the cities of Luanda and Maputo over the course of their histories from the colonial period to the post-independence era. In particular, I draw on the literary images and descriptions of the cities to demonstrate a design of inequality that their urbanism determines. Finally, I argue that a struggle for terrain and citizenship—in the conquest of space by colonizers and the reconquest of lost places by the colonized—draws the lines of that inequality. African literatures, particularly those expressed in the languages of the former colonizers, arose to expose and denounce the inequality underpinning the colonial system. 1 Through these literatures, a language of oppression and colonialism transformed into a language of emancipation, writing the cultural difference that would engender the political independence of nations. In this article, I will draw on the literary images and descriptions of the cities of Luanda and Maputo to demonstrate a design of inequality that their urbanism determines.
